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Malaysia Malaysia arboretum

Putrajaya Botanical Garden

Gula Kapas · CC BY 3.0

47% trees around it and 83 species recorded.

49Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km47%
  • wild within 10 km63%
  • species recorded83
  • Altitude51 m

The forest around

47% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 55%Grassland 5%Wetland 1%Water 21%Built-up 18%Trees 46%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 43%Trees 50%Grassland 9%Water 4%Bare ground 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 36%Trees 50%Grassland 8%Water 3%Bare ground 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 36%47%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km55%
  • 1–3 km46%
  • 3–6 km50%
  • 6–10 km50%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees46%
  • Grassland6%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water4%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up43%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

83 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Beach Barringtonia
Beach BarringtoniaBarringtonia asiatica3 recordsSteve Fitzgerald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye
Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeyeSphagneticola trilobata3 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dillenia suffruticosa
Dillenia suffruticosaDillenia suffruticosa2 recordsWibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

49out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 47%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 63%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 83Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 51 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February and from May to July.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan28°21°206 mm
  2. Feb29°21°157 mm
  3. Mar30°22°194 mm
  4. Apr30°23°250 mm
  5. May29°23°172 mm
  6. Jun29°23°155 mm
  7. Jul28°22°169 mm
  8. Aug28°22°184 mm
  9. Sep29°22°195 mm
  10. Oct29°22°263 mm
  11. Nov28°22°314 mm
  12. Dec28°22°263 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Putrajaya Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Putrajaya, Malaysia

Putrajaya Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Malaysia.

Seen from space, 47% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 63% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

83 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 0 fungi, 80 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Beach Barringtonia, Bay Biscayne creeping-oxeye and Dillenia suffruticosa.

The best time to walk is from January to February and from May to July.

Pandangan dari jambatan kayu dalam Taman Botani. (L-R) Pejabat Taman Botani, Perdana Putra (Pejabat Perdana Menteri), Masjid Putrajaya - panoramio
Gula Kapas · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Putrajaya Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 61shelters and huts within 6 kmBustan Eropah, Bustan Inggeris, Bustan Oriental and 58 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km16 Sierra Lookout Point
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 79car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmThe Tribe Glamping
  • 72places to stay within 10 kmAmanah, Royal Park Hotel @ UNITEN Bangi, College Cansellor and 69 more
  • 54restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Putrajaya Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas28 mountains within 25 km
Bukit Jeloh12 kmBukit Mandol18 kmBukit Pening326 m · 18 kmBukit Kemandul19 kmBukit Mayau19 kmBukit Nibong483 m · 22 kmBukit Menuang481 m · 24 kmBukit Galla613 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Sumatra473,481 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Planetarium NegaraBortle 9 · 21 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Putrajaya - Moroccan Pavilion at Taman Botani
Azreey · CC BY-SA 4.0
Botanical Garden in Putrajaya, Malaysia 02
Frostpolar · CC BY-SA 4.0
Botanical Garden in Putrajaya, Malaysia 03
Frostpolar · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Putrajaya Botanical Garden

Malaysia

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 63%Wild
  • 83Species

Templer's Park

Malaysia · 40 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 350Species

See the guide

Penang Botanic Gardens

Malaysia · 318 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 165Species

See the guide

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Singapore · 297 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 59%Wild
  • 394Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q20453578) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,716 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Darkskyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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